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Joe Mauer entered the Baseball Hall of Fame last year with a race that is being more rare in each MLB season, since everything happened with the Minnesota Twins.
Mauer, who is from St. Paul, Minnesota, and was the general selection number 1 of the twins in 2001, played each of its 15 mlb seasons with the organization. It was an MVP of the American League at once, hit 143 home runs, hit .306 and it was an All-Star six times.
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Catchr of the Minnesota Twins Joe Mauer (Brace hemmelgarn-USA Today Sports)
Todd Helton, Tony Oliva, Derek Jeter, Edgar Martínez, Mariano Rivera, Alan Trammel and Chipper Jones were among the recent induced ones that have spent time with a team throughout his career. The future members of the Hall of Fame as Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Justin Verlander, Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, Manny Machado and many others will not be able to say the same.
The idea of having loyalty to a team during a whole race is something that fans have discussed since the advent of free agency in sports.
Mauer told Pak Gazette Digital that he “meant a lot” for him to be able to play with a team, essentially his team in his hometown, throughout his career.
“I grew up here in Minnesota and root the twins. [I] He had the dream of playing in the big leagues, [and] For me to be in the position in my year of Draft [and] The twins who have the first general selection and selecting me, is really quite crazy and something for which I am very grateful.
First base of the Minnesota Joe Mauer (Jesse Johnson-USA Today Sports)
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“But for me, I think many boys would like to use that uniform for their career, but sometimes it does not depend on them. You know, they exchange or … things do not work, or it could work in a different place. So I am grateful for the opportunity I had in Minnesota, I was proud to wear the Minnesota shirt every day of my career and grateful to have been able to do it for 15 years.”
Mauer admitted that he still has to pinch a little after being included in the Hall of Fame.
But he lamented that a thing was missing in his almost perfect curriculum: a world series ring.
“The first thing that comes to mind is that I would have loved to win a championship,” he told Pak Gazette Digital. “Obviously, when I signed with Minnesota and went up again with Minnesota, I signed there with those aspirations. It did not work. We always tried, and I felt good when I signed that we had the opportunity or the opportunity to win, to win everything.
“But that is sports. There is only one happy team at the end of the year. You are still trying to improve and overcome the hump. I could play with some really good teams and be part of some really good teams. I think if something was missing that would be that. But obviously, looking back. [at] The effort we made my teammates, I would not change anything. “
Joe Mauer (Kim Klement-USA Today Sports)
Mauer will compete in the Golf Tournament of the Century American Championship next month at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club.
